Lesbians. Dudes dig’em, other girls dig’em. Not too many people aren’t a fan of them.

Ok, I have your attention now.

Why do some girls claim to be a lesbian but don’t act in any way that would indicate they really are? Is it just *that* cool for a girl to say they’re interested in girls?

All I’m saying is be who you are, and don’t trivialize that by pretending to be someone you aren’t. Embrace your sexuality and go with it. Be straight, gay, bisexual.. be whatever you want to be, but don’t claim to be something you aren’t to be shocking, or “cool”, or whatever.

*Edit: I meant to save this as a draft, but accidentally published it. I’ll come back later and complete my thoughts.

It’s difficult to say how long I have been getting migraines, but I’d think it safe to say it has been for the past 14ish years. For those that have never had a migraine, they just take everything out of you. All you want to do is lay in a dark room with absolutely no noise, hoping you position yourself so that you can apply pressure to help relieve the pain. All you can hope to do is to fall asleep.

My problem is that I have never been good at taking medication early enough to be effective. I usually realize I have a headache way too late and throw up any medicine I may take.

I wonder if I will ever get to the point that I’ll recognize the onset of a migraine far enough in advance that I can kill it with medicine!

I was recently asked to define “romance”. Now, me being a guy, I had never placed much (if any) thought into this. It has been periodically popping into my head though since being asked, so here is my futile attempt to put definition to romance.

When I think of romance, I think of a candle lit dinner, a moonlit walk on the beach, laying in the bed of a truck staring at the stars, a quiet walk through your very own neighborhood in the evening. But none of these involve romance if they’re done alone or in a group of people, romance is limited to one on one interaction. So far, I have two things that define romance: setting and people involved.

Going back to setting for a moment.. I think setting is a fairly large component of romance. Can romance be had with two people cleaning a PortaPotty? Unlikely. Can romance be had standing at the base of the Eiffel Tower? Mhm.

The final component of romance has to do with the feelings the two individuals share for each other. You could be on a Tuscan wine tasting tour with your best friend and never once have romance even considered. In this situation: setting + one on one interactions =/= romance. A shared love and respect needs to be had with the two involved.

To summarize: setting + one on one interaction + mutual feelings of love/respect = romance

Please note that sex is not in the equation. Yes, romance may lead to sex, but in no way is sex directly involved with romance. So there you go, an honest, quick assessment of what I think romance is after thinking about it off and on for around 12 hours. There are probably flaws, but those flaws will be better understood in Part 2 of 4.. migraines.